14th October 2003, 3:05 PM
Quote:Anomalous. Give similar stats for Britain a look. The fact is that gun control doesn't disarm those who don't follow the law to begin with. All the gun control laws we have now doesn't even begin to stem the flow of assault rifles and other weapons which are already illegal.
One should also note that fifty years ago, when anyone could own a gun and rifling courses were taught in friggin high school, murder rates were at a tiny fraction of what they are today. It's funny how none of this matters. One doesn't have to point out that our murder problem has always followed on the tail of our drug problem... Guns aren't the issue, plummeting morality is.
Simple fact is, banning guns is one of those good intentions that pave the road to Hell. Even if there were some reason to justify a solution that obviously causes more problems than it solves, there's that whole idea of rescinding one of the primary Amendments.
Yeah, getting rid of guns sure would make this country a living hell!

But seriously, I think it's perfectly fine for people to have right to own a gun if they pass a background check. I don't know why so many of you have a problem with that.
Quote:That ended up being one of the only things he was telling the truth about. The rest were either inaccuracies or outright lies.
Gee wiz, Ann Coulter says that Franken was lying. How surprising.
I bet you're also going to defend Bill O'Reilly and all of the lies he has told, such as how he claims to be an independent and how he now claims that he never compared Mein Kampf to The Quran. I even saw the shows where he made direct comparisons between the two books! It was about how ACLU was forcing students to either read the Quran or write an essay about why they don't want to read it. Now while I don't agree with them doing that, Bill O'Reilly saying that this would be like forcing people during WW2 to read Mein Kompf was one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard him say. That was about when I started to lose respect for him.